Communities across the LA area have been successful using a variety of tactics to combat increased ICE activity. ICE agents decided to crash at several Pasadena hotels. Agents were apparently interrogating and harassing hotel staff looking for victims. However, they weren’t prepared for the tables to turn. When a hotel staff member posted online that ICE agents were staying in Pasadena, the community turned out to send a loud and clear message: ICE is not welcome — not in Pasadena, not in LA.

Protestors held it down and successfully forced ICE out of Pasadena’s AC hotel—although for hours thereafter ICE officers were unable to leave the parking lot to continue their terror campaigns due to protestors having slashed the tires on their vehicles. Rumor has it that even the auto workers sided with protestors instead of helping them get back on the road, leaving ICE agents to attempt their own repairs with duct tape.

During a city council meeting in Glendale last week, an immigration attorney shone a light on an indefinite contract the city’s had since 2007 with ICE allowing them to hold detainees in the city’s jails. On Sunday, the city cancelled the contract in response to mounting community pressure. Let’s keep up the pressure in all of our cities and neighborhoods: ICE OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)